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Title	:	People of the Book
Author	:	Geraldine Brooks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2008 by Viking Books (first published January 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Mystery. Book Club. Literature. Jewish

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 119212 Users | 11143 Reviews

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation.

In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

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Original Title:	People of the Book
ISBN:	067001821X
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hanna Heath, Ozren Karaman, Serif Kamal, Stela Kamal, Amitai Yomtov, Werner Heinrich, Razmus Kanaha, Dr. Franz Hirschfeldt, Florien Mittl, Giovanni Domenico Vistorini, Judah Aryeh, Sarah Heath, David Ben Shoushan, Ruth Ben Shoushan, Joseph Ben Shoushan, Reuben Ben Shoushan, Rosa del Salvador, Zahra bint Ibrahim al-Tarek, Aaron Sharansky
Setting:	Sarajevo,1996(Bosnia and Herzegovina) Sarajevo,1940(Bosnia and Herzegovina) Bosnia and Herzegovina
Literary Awards:	National Jewish Book Award Nominee (2008), Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction (2009), Prime Minister's
Literary Awards:	Nominee for Fiction (2009), Barbara Jefferis Award Nominee (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2008) Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2010)

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There is a difference between referring to someone as a mutt - which means they are of such a mixed ancestry that their ethnicity can't really be

I could have sworn I wrote a review. I read this book the first week it was released....I LOVED IT!!!

This is an awful book.I expected great things from Brooks - March is a book I treasure - but this novel is a third-rate Da Vinci code, written with about the same amount of skill.The premise is captivating - a 500-year-old haggadah is found in Sarajevo in 1996, and the novel sets out to explore the book's journey across Europe in those intervening years. Along the way, the haggadah acts as an entry point into the tumult, crisis, and unspeakable violence experienced by Jewish communities across

Multiple timeline historical fiction based upon the Sarajevo Haggadah, an elaborately illustrated ancient Judaic text that had been saved in the past by two Muslims and a Catholic priest. It is unusual in featuring artwork, which was not common in Jewish texts of the time period. The modern story follows Australian book conservator Hanna Heath who, in 1996, is called upon to evaluate and restore the book. During the evaluation, she finds small pieces of evidence of the books 500-year history.

A Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain has been saved from the ruins of a bombed library. Hanna Heath, who specializes in the conservation of medieval documents, is hired to repair and preserve the ancient manuscript. Tiny artifacts found inside the manuscript lead Hanna on a quest to discover how the rare manuscript was created and who risked everything to ensure its safety for five hundred years. The author capitalizes on Hanna's passion for her profession. Her work on the

5★ A new favourite! I love it when old stories sound right for their time, and Geraldine Brooksdoes that so well. This novel was inspired by the discovery of the real Sarajevo Haggadah, a book more than 700 years old, so Brooks had a lot of ground to cover and a lot of voices to invent.Her central character (Hanna Heath, a rare book expert) says about herself: By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of the people who made the book. I can figure out who

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